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Volume 77 - February 2014

Reviews: The Near and Middle East

Christian Mauder: Gelehrte Krieger: Die Mamluken als Träger arabischsprachiger Bildung nach al-Ṣafadī, al-Maqrīzī und weiteren Quellen. (Arabistische Texte und Studien.) xviii, 234 pp. Hildesheim, Zurich and New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 2012. ISBN 3 487 14852 6.

Yossef Rapoport and Emilie Savage-Smith (ed. and trans.): An Eleventh-Century Egyptian Guide to the Universe: The Book of Curiosities. (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science.) xii, 698 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2014. €233. ISBN 978 90 04 25564 7.

Michael Ebstein: Mysticism and Philosophy in al-Andalus: Ibn Masarra, Ibn al-ʿArabī and the Ismāʿīlī Tradition. (Islamic History and Civilization. Studies and Texts.) xiii, 276 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2014. €114. ISBN 978 90 04 25536 4.

Agostino Cilardo: The Early History of Ismaili Jurisprudence. Law under the Fatimids. (Ismaili Texts and Translations Series, 18.) xi, 189 pp. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2012. ISBN 978 1 78076 129 9.

Linda G. Jones: The Power of Oratory in the Medieval Muslim World. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization.) xi, 298 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. £60. ISBN 978 1 107 02305 5.

Doğan Gürpinar: Ottoman Imperial Diplomacy: A Political, Social and Cultural History. (Library of Ottoman Studies.) 288 pp. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2013. £68. ISBN 978 17807 6112 1.

Roman Siebertz: Preise, Löhne und Lebensstandard im safavidischen Iran. Eine Untersuchung zu den Rechnungsbüchern Wollebrand Geleynssen de Jonghs (1641–1643). 143 pp. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2013. €35. ISBN 978 3 7001 7263 5.

Clive Holes and Rudolf de Jong (eds): Ingham of Arabia: A Collection of Articles Presented as a Tribute to the Career of Bruce Ingham. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics.) xvi, 241 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2013. €103. ISBN 978 90 04 25617 0.

Andreas Görke and Konrad Hirschler (eds): Manuscript Notes as Documentary Sources. (Beiruter Texte und Studien.) 208 pp. Würzburg and Beirut: Ergon, 2011. €48. ISBN 978 3 89913 831 3.

Carl F. Petry: The Criminal Underworld in a Medieval Islamic Society. Narratives from Cairo and Damascus under the Mamluks. (Chicago Studies on the Middle East.) viii, 365 pp. Chicago: Middle East Documentation Center, 2012. ISBN 978 0 9708199 8 7.

Bryan S. Turner and Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir (eds): The Sociology of Islam. Collected Essays of Bryan S. Turner. (Contemporary Thought in the Islamic World.) xii, 274 pp. Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate. £70. ISBN 978 1 4094 6211 8.

Fabio Caiani and Catherine Cobham: The Iraqi Novel: Key Writers, Key Texts. xiv, 264 pp. (Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature.) Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013. £65. ISBN: 978 0 7486 4141 3.

Yasir Suleiman: Arabic in the Fray: Language Ideology and Cultural Politics. ix, 308 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013. £24.99. ISBN 978 0 7486 8031 3.

Hugh Kennedy (ed.): Warfare and Poetry in the Middle East. xviii, 286 pp. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2013. ISBN 978 1 78076 362 0.

Behnam Sadeghi: The Logic of Law Making in Islam: Women and Prayer in the Legal Tradition. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization.) xxi, 215 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. £60. ISBN 978 1 107 00909 7.

Remke Kruk: The Warrior Women of Islam: Female Empowerment in Arabic Popular Literature. xxv, 272 pp. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2014. £15.99. ISBN 978 1 84885 927 2.

Reviews: Central Asia

Caroline Humphrey and Hürelbaatar Ujeed: A Monastery in Time: The Making of Mongolian Buddhism. xiii, 426 pp. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. £21. ISBN 978 0 226 03190 3.

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